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Regularly updating your wireless router is not enough to ward off attacks
Wireless routers are the most often attacked and exploited type of IoT device. They are also one of the rare IoT devices that most of us can’t do without. We need them …
WWW inventor announces Solid, a push to create a decentralized web users can trust
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has not been hiding his disappointment with the direction in which his invention was taken. “The web has evolved …
Are communications service providers confident in open source networking solutions?
The Linux Foundation announced the results of an industry survey to gauge industry perceptions of open source across networking technologies. Top takeaways from the survey …
Downloads of known vulnerable open source components increase 120%
Sonatype today released its fourth annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report, which reveals the widespread use of vulnerable software components by businesses around …
French cybersecurity agency open sources security hardened CLIP OS
After developing it internally for over 10 years, the National Cybersecurity Agency of France (ANSSI) has decided to open source CLIP OS, a Linux-based operating system …
Scan reveals known open source vulnerabilities in popular Android apps
Widespread use of unpatched open source code in popular Android apps is causing significant security vulnerabilities, warns the non-profit American Consumer Institute Center …
Qualys Community Edition: Discover IT assets, manage vulnerabilities, scan web apps
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2018, Anthony Mogannam, Product Manager, SME/SMB Solutions at Qualys, talks about issues related to open source software and Qualys …
Wireshark can be crashed via malicious packet trace files
The Wireshark team has plugged three serious vulnerabilities that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to crash vulnerable installations. According to Cisco …
Critical Apache Struts flaw opens enterprises to compromise, patch ASAP!
A critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-11776) in Apache Struts, the popular open source framework for developing Java-based web apps, could allow remote …
Secure your open source components automatically, continuously, and silently
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2018, Azi Cohen, General Manager at WhiteSource, talks about open source lifecycle management. WhiteSource manages open source …
Who’s trying to eavesdrop on your customers’ encrypted mobile traffic?
The number one source of TLS/SSL Man in the Middle (MitM) attacks on encrypted mobile traffic are not corporate firewalls or captive portals used by hotels, airports and other …
Social Mapper: A free tool for automated discovery of targets’ social media accounts
Trustwave has released Social Mapper, an open source tool that automates the process of discovering individuals’ social media accounts. How Social Mapper works The tool …
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